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NGOs, wars, dependence and life-saving illusion: Critical autopsy of a global system where charity organizes survival without producing emancipation

For more than three decades, Africa has become one of the main theatres of international humanitarian action. Refugee camps, nutritional programmes, mobile clinics, food distributions, resilience projects, protection missions: the footprint of NGOs is pervasive. This presence is so long-lasting that it is no longer an exception, but a mode of ordinary crisis management ...

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Capitalism, growth and the consumer society: an endless dynamic at the heart of contemporary crises

Redefining growth in the modern world At the dawn of the twenty-first century, industrialized societies are confronted with a striking paradox: never in history has humanity had as much material wealth and technological innovation, yet social, ecological and psychological inequalities have never been so marked. At the center of this paradox is ...

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When the First World Power Makes the International Order Vacilate: The Law of the Strongest Against the Hope of a World Regulated by Law, Human Rights and a Reformed UN

Since his return to the US presidency in January 2025, Donald J. Trump has initiated a radical transformation of US foreign policy, brutally breaking the principles of multilateralism, international law and institutional cooperation that have structured international relations since 1945. Through a series of spectacular decisions: withdrawal ...

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Learning time: artificial intelligence or man's temptation without effort

Artificial intelligence is not just a technical innovation; It is a mirror tense to our civilizations. Where the printing press had multiplied access to knowledge without abolishing the effort to make a thought of it, the AI introduced a more radical break: the possibility, for the first time, of delegating not only the labour force, but ...

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When evil prays: slavery, religion and anesthesia of human consciousness

When consciousness is silent and evil settles There is a question that goes through history like a cold blade, indifferent to centuries and civilizations: How can men inflict humiliation, pain, degradation, sometimes extermination, while maintaining an image of themselves compatible with the idea of dignity, virtue, or even of ...

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Racism: Understanding a phenomenon that crosses individuals, structures societies and shapes contemporary politics

Racism, Beyond Hate Racism is often treated as a moral pathology, an individual deviance or an archaic residue that will disappear with progress, education and modernity. This reading is not only insufficient, but misleading. Racism is not an anomaly of the social system; It is one of the modes ...

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Trump II Doctrine: strength, sovereignty and the end of liberal illusions

Donald Trump gave the New York Times a long interview from the Oval Office. Behind the profusion of sometimes provocative, sometimes repetitive, statements is a structured political doctrine, consistent in its assumed brutality: the primacy of force, the personalization of power, distrust of international norms and the explicit rejection of counter-powers deemed illegitimate. A radical conception...

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Inequality: Anatomy of a Fractured World – What the World Inequality Report 2026 reveals

As economic, social and climatic tensions intensify, the World Inequality Report 2026 highlights a difficult but essential truth: the extreme concentration of world wealth is not a natural phenomenon, but the consequence of institutional, fiscal and political choices accumulated over several decades. The document reveals the extent of these imbalances with a ...

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South Korean soft power or methodical invention of a world imagination

It is now impossible to think of contemporary cultural globalization without taking note of a phenomenon that goes far beyond entertainment: the affirmation of South Korean soft power as the structuring force of world imaginations. In less than 30 years, South Korea has managed to transform cultural industries that have long been marginal into a lever for economic growth.

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